Note 2.See Fletcher, page 184.There s not a string attuned to mirthBut has its chord in melancholy.Thomas Hood: Ode to Melancholy. [back]

Note 3.Dr. Johnson said Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. And Byron said, If the reader has patience to go through his volumes, he will be more improved for literary conversation than by the perusal of any twenty other works with which I am acquainted.Works, vol i. p. 144. [back]